Gainesville police arrested a 21-year-old Keystone Heights man for attempted murder after he stabbed another man eight times in the torso during a brawl in downtown Gainesville on Sunday morning.
According to Gainesville Police Department spokesperson Art Forgey, the incident occurred around 2 a.m. on Sunday when Brandon Aaron Elijah Goodwin, 21, stabbed a 24-year-old male victim several times in the chest at 200 S. Main St. Goodwin was arrested and charged with attempted homicide.
The incident started after two groups of people left a bar in downtown Gainesville and were arguing with each other. Goodwin was in a third group that happened to be walking along Main Street near Second Avenue and, according to the arrest report, interjected himself into the argument despite not being a part of either of the two groups that initially left the bar…